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Google Docs vs. Microsoft Word: Which Works Better for Business?

posted by martyb on Tuesday June 02 2020, @01:52AM   
from the how-do-I-convert-my-existing-files? dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

Google Docs vs. Microsoft Word: Which works better for business?:

Have you been thinking of reassessing which word processor your business should standardize on? The obvious choices are the two best known: Microsoft Word and Google Docs. But which is better?

Several years ago, the answer to that would have been easy: Microsoft Word for its better editing, formatting and markup tools; Google Docs for its better collaboration. But both applications have been radically updated since then. Word now has live collaboration tools, and Google has added more sophisticated formatting, editing and markup features to Docs.

TFA requires free registration, but the question is an interesting one: Have Google Docs arrived at parity with, or surpassed, Microsoft Word for business needs? How much work is required to transition existing documents, macros, and workflows?

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Original Submission

• never the vendor's fault their software sucks never the vendor's fault their software sucks (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 02 2020, @03:50AM (1 child)

  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 02 2020, @03:50AM (#1002027)

  commercial software is all garbage

  all of it

  commercial software development is a field that rewards hucksters, con artists, and worse

  who has to deal with it when commercial software is shit, when their cloud goes down? never the vendor. grab the nearest tech dweeb and bully him until Google comes back up

• Re:never the vendor's fault their software sucks (Score: 2) by meustrus on Tuesday June 02 2020, @01:28PM

  by meustrus (4961) on Tuesday June 02 2020, @01:28PM (#1002163)

  Maybe for things that free software advocates care about.

  In the music world, commercial software is king. Sure, there's MuseScore and LMMS as free solutions, but they seriously lack the domain understanding that commercial products like Sibelius, Dorico, ProTools, Logic, Reason, FL Studio, and many others demonstrate.

  Granted, the number of applications I can rattle off shows a level of competition that can only come from Microsoft and other big tech companies not breaking the free market. It's also only really possible because this stuff is expensive. Pro musicians expect to spend thousands on hardware, so a few hundred bucks for a software suite is definitely within reason. Especially when some of those applications, like ProTools, can also replace some of that hardware with virtual instruments powered by cheap commodity MIDI keyboards.

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  If there isn't at least one reference or primary source, it's not +1 Informative. Maybe the underused +1 Interesting?

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